Sunny Hill – Grasshopper Song: Kpop Music Mondays

This week we’re reviewing a video that we’re really surprised made it to the top of the list. Great job Sunny Hill fans for voting in Sunny Hill’s “The Grasshopper Song” which we love! If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out here:

To begin with, wow! We’re really happy to finally be reviewing Sunny Hill. We spoke about them before in our K Crunch, but that was only in passing. We thought that they weren’t really popular enough to get voted in. Boy were we wrong! Sure, it wasn’t like a Big Bang overload crashing our site, but Sunny Hill still raced to the top of our Kpop Charts. Awesome!

Running a video site kinda makes me feel this way...

We’re happy that we get to review this, not only because it’s a cool sounding song, but it’s deep. And the video’s deep. And, really, we don’t get afforded many opportunities to talk about songs that have a deep message. Yay! Talking about this song and video made us feel as if our English degrees aren’t useless! Great success! And, come on, how often can we make a dirty sounding joke out of a literary device term?! NEVER! Ohhhhh yeah! Not that English degrees are useless, of course. It helped us become who we are and yada yada yada, but boyyyy would I have loved to have taken some courses in university about web development or video editing. But that’s another story.

I guess one of the main reasons we feel like we really like this song and video is because we – the two of us here – kinda feel like grasshoppers. We’re not working for a big company, we’re not working salary jobs and working for promotions or anything like that. Our only job is this blog. We’re not hoarding up as much sugar as a worker ant, but we’re doing something that’s making us happy, at least. And we’re not bohemian hippies as well! We’re kinda hipstery dorks, but at least we’re not airy fairy!

We’re lucky enough to be able to do what we love doing. We don’t know many people who can say the same thing, unfortunately, and so we feel like this song and video especially is relevant to our lives. Or maybe we read our own lives into the video too much instead? We’re not sure. Long story short, we like this song, and we’re not hippies.

So, yeah, we definitely recommend picking up the Sunny Hill Album, if you can’t tell! We like this song a lot, and we definitely support this group and their message :D

And, on a side note, some people might be confused as to how this beat out Teen Top’s “Crazy”, which has more votes, shares, and comments. We’re not going to answer this question here, but we’ve explained the ranking algorithm a bit more in our Tumblr post, in case you’re wondering.

Oh, BTW, you should have the other video of this from LOENENT in your playlist, since the quality of that video is much better (trying to get a good look at the magazines, even though I already noticed them and laughed (my favorite part too:P)

Actually, i think the “Ring Ring” dosen’t mean how the bell sounds like. it’s more like 링가링가링(Ring-ga Ring-ga Ring), which is mimetic word, means “playing freely”. that words used ing korean childeren song. i think who made this song had set that meaning. because the part’s melody is totally same with that children song!

They don’t have to be in English, except that the official lyrics published by Loen shows the word “ring”. If they’re the ones putting it out there that this is an English word, then it’s completely fair that the pronunciation affects their mark.

I’m so glad that you guys showed how deep this video really was. OH, and i love the refernece to Teen Top with the “Insectsyy Heyy”.. I burst out laughing cause I got it right when you did the gesture . HA

In France we had a very famous plagiarist in the 17th century, La Fontaine, who wrote tons of poems strongly inspired from Aesope’s. His most famous one is “La Cigale et la Fourmi”, literally “The Cicada and the Ant”, and all French kids have to learn it at the age of 6/7. A lot of French artists wrote songs inspired from this fable, proudly claiming to be cicadas! So I didn’t know if the story is that famous abroad, and if it’s easy for Korean listeners to get the reference.

I’m glad you enjoy reviewing symbolic videos, and the lightening you add to it compensates the frustration we probably all get from not seeing you guise doing the “stop stop breaking my heart” clearly obvious crotch karessing. It was worth it.

For the insectual video, well, this one is the best, so as the song, so I’ll be unfaithful to Big Bang this time.

I was really happy that Sunny Hill managed to get no 1. I was constantly checking out the chart to see if it had gone up, though I actually didn’t expect it to get to no 1 that fast (or at all).
I really love the song and the video and I loved the symbolism in it. And I’m so glad you explained some of the things I didn’t notice in the video. I love the fact that they used the story differently in the music video and the moral was the opposite to the orginal story. Sunny Hill is now my new hero, really.

You read switch girl? Omg… Are you both otaku???!!!!
I loved this song btw and was really suprised that it manage to reach the top. Didn’t know they had that many fans… Or maybe, people just liked that song.
On a side note, I attempted to read switch girl but it got alittle too promiscuous for me. Probably because I’m too young…
Strange though… I didn’t think you guys would be into manga like those.

I agree. This was an excellently designed music video and I really enjoy the song. And I know how you feel about your degree sometimes. I majored in Art and minored in Art History. Now I’m teaching English in South Korea.

congratulations guise! ^^ i could feel your excitement on finally being able to put your degrees into good use. i thought i was back in college, sitting in Ms. O.T’s English Lit…. (ugh, sorry, i was a biology major ;p would have loved to see u in university robes while discussing your onomatopoeias and stuff. LOL btw, i loved their video, too. fighting!